Overview

This document provides an overview and key details about the base and extended domains in the Ed-Fi Unifying Data Model (UDM).

Audience

This information is intended for organizations using the Ed-Fi Data Standard. The document is written for data modelers, but should be useful to business analysts, system developers, Local Education Agency (LEA), Regional Education Service Agency (RESA), and State Education Agency (SEA) personnel involved in collecting and using education data.

Prerequisites

To gain the most benefit from this information, the reader should already be familiar with the following knowledge areas:

• Data Modeling, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_modeling 
• Unified Modeling Language (UML) as applied to conceptual Data Modeling, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

Purpose

The purpose of this documentation is to provide an overview of the organization and high-level design of the Ed-Fi Unifying Data Model.